37. Madrone before the Storm
Madrone before the storm, watercolors, 2011
I have been experimenting a lot with layering watercolors, sometime with the eye to use the watercolor layer as a base onto which I would apply pastels. I had traveled recently from Seattle to Portland on Amtrak, and did this piece. I was trying to capture the layers of limbs & leaves, and how light filters through denser & lighter sections of trees. I also wanted to capture the motion of trees swaying in the wind.
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